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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The specific heat of aqueous solutions, with special reference to sodium and potassium chlorides' by William Robert Bousfield and C Elspeth Bousfield

Reference number: RR/24/21

Date: June 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The speculation is not based on 'a very secure foundation', but the author is 'entitled to his own interpretation of the observations, which cannot be materially abbreviated'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1919]

Endorsed on verso as received 26 June 1917.

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RR/24/21
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June 1917
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2 pages
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar

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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The specific heat of aqueous solutions, with special reference to sodium and potassium chlorides' by William Robert Bousfield and C Elspeth Bousfield, June 1917, RR/24/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_21/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-the-specific-heat-of-aqueous-solutions-with-special-reference-to-sodium-and-potassium-chlorides-by-william-robert-bousfield-and-c-elspeth-bousfield, accessed on 11 February 2025

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